Quotes from Marion Cotillard

I don't have a favorite process. My favorite process is the right process for the person I am working with. I can fit in any process as long as the director respects who I am and doesn't try to put me in a situation to get something out of me - if I can give it without that situation.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I need to be on the same page as the director.

What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.

Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

I was a big fan of Greta Garbo and that era of movies, so I dreamt watching those movies.

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

Campaigning and acting aren't compatible. That's why Audrey Hepburn gave up acting. That's why Angelina Jolie will give up. I'm not ready to stop yet.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

We need to fight for women's rights, but I don't want to separate women from men. We're separated already because we're not made the same, and it's the difference that creates this energy in creation and love.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

I cry watching 'Camille' with Greta Garbo. I have to say that - while it might sound weird - it will be weird, but there is one movie I always laugh in, and at the end of the movie, I always cry, and I saw it, like, 10 times. It's 'Step Brothers.'

I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.